We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.